Can Windows XP PRO Corporate edition be ghosted? 1

[7881188]

There are two types of XP Corporate and Retail. Can the Corporate version XP be ghosted and then the image be installed on to a different type of machine I.E IBM to a Compaq machine with different Hardware. It is known knowledge the retail version has WPA protection because it notices the changes in hardware and prevents the image from booting up.

Is the Corporate version the same? or is there a way round it..

please advise.

 

[gbaughma]

If you ghost it before it finishes installing (right before the "Installing new hardware" phase, then it should be fine.

--Greg

 

[7881188]

but if you want to do a standard image like with office, winzip etc doesn't that seem pointless?

 

[7881188]

can anyone answer this?

 

[bcastner]

You are more concerned about WPA than the image. This is an uncomfortable and likely not answered question on this forum.

 

[crashtestmac]

There are no problems with this as long as you have a volume license or select version of windows.

If you do you will not have to register each pc as it knows that they key is for your organisation not just one pc like the retail version.

Also the best thing to do is learn how sysprep works and run this, this alows you to install the ghost image on any hardware.

Hope this helps.

Mac
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Glad to be of service.

 

[gbaughma]

Interesting... is there a FAQ or something for SysPrep? I haven't used it myself, but it would be REALLY nice to have a full installation on my drive duplicator that I could roll out on different hardware configurations.

--Greg

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/q314/8/28.asp&NoWebContent=1

 

[wolluf]

There is of course the normal isssue of moving an installation from one hardware base to another. It may work - or it may not. You won't know until you try it.

 

[MountainNetworks]

This might work...

Ghost your drive

Restore the ghost image to the drive you want to copy it to

When the ghost recover is completed, it will want to reboot.

Put your windows XP CD in the drive, and when the system reboots, do a repair. This should take care of any device dependent driver dependencies.

No guarantees that it will work on your system. I've done it with a few of mine.

 

[jurgen36]

: MountainNetworks
It might work if the new system is similar to the old one. Otherwise it will boot up, to the password screen, then wait for a few minutes and comes up that it can not verify the authentity number. A reinstallation with the repair option will not work. There are ways around this but I will not post them, as I otherwise get well deserved flack from other users of the forum. Regards

Jurgen

 

[7881188]

Retail version does not work wpa takes a snapshot of your system during that setup., and when windows loads the wpa is checked againest your machine which in turn if it matches lets you on. If there is a mis-match depending on what is changed Mainly happens of Motherboard changes then the wpa sees this and then freezes.

Well we have the corporate version now and we are bout to test it. I will keep you posted